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The Royal Regiment of Artillery is an Arm of the British Army.The Regiment is made up of two distinct arms; the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal Artillery. Somewhat confusingly both consist of a number of Regiments, which are comparable to Battalions in size.
B Battery Royal Horse Artillery; B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; 2/B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; B (Reserve) Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery; 2/1st Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery
A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery is the senior Battery in the British Army's Royal Artillery and is part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. The Chestnut Troop is currently based in Purvis Lines at Larkhill Barracks. The unit is currently equipped as a Close Support Artillery Battery, with the AS-90 Self-propelled gun.
The Royal Horse Artillery, currently consists of three regiments, (1 RHA, 3 RHA and 7 RHA) and one ceremonial unit (King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery). Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars , except the King's Troop, created in 1946, and M Battery ...
M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery was formed on 23 January 1809 as 2nd Troop, Madras Horse Artillery, a horse artillery battery of the Honourable East India Company's Madras Army. [1] On 5 August 1825, it was redesignated as B Troop, 1st Brigade, Madras Horse Artillery [ 2 ] as the Madras Horse Artillery expanded to 8 troops and was organized as ...
148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery; 176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery; 202 Coast Battery, Royal Artillery; 203 (Elswick) Battery Royal Artillery; 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery; 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery; 206 (Ulster) Battery Royal Artillery; 207 (City of Glasgow) Battery Royal Artillery
The cap badge of the Royal Artillery. This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.
From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [14] hence the battery was designated D Battery, A Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. Another reorganization, on 14 April 1877, saw the number of brigades reduced to three (of 10 batteries each); the battery – at Woolwich [ 15 ] – remained in A Brigade but ...